Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-12
MARIE AIMEE.
Life AMI Death of = Once Pre-eminent
Woman.

New York Star.
Nile. Aimee, whose death WAS an
nounced in the cable dispatches yester-
day, was one of the favorites Of the New
YORK public. No aomsn on the age
could better interpret to the intelligence
OF New Yorker the nice distinctions that
lie between perfect propriety and Partisan
prurieucy. Pleasing in person and gifted
with q sufficient voice TO carry the parts
she undertook, she DID undoubtedly
more than anyone else to show TO this
community the scope Of wicked intention
that lay between them and the world Of
opera bouffe.
She is dead. 4 tumor led to surgical
operation, and the knife shortened her
life. Yet it was not too soon, Ertisticslly
speaking, for career to be closed that
was complete ofitselt and was ended as
it began-under the full glare OF public
appre citation.
Aimee began her career in public in
Msrseiiies, France, in 1859 She was lit
the more than q Child then, for she was
called no more than 43 years old when
she died. Sac then sang in variety
thester the name Of which is lest 10 fame.
She did, however, good enough work TO
attract the attention CT the manager OF
the best variety thester in the wcFld-the
Alcszsr Of Rio Jaue!rG. Alter short
experience in Marseilles she tooka South
American engagement, and there began s
career that made her famous on two con-
tineDts.
Singing end sctiDg-iOr she never sep.
arated the singer from the actor uutil her
voice was destroycd-in the Brazilian the
eter with the greatest success, she was IN
q position to urge upon her manager
radical change III policy when "Orphee
aux Enters" was produced in Paris. Ii
made hit there, and, getting the libretto
and the music, she saw what possibilities
of success we're shead Of the piece in
South America, and she urged and OBJ
tanned a radical change of policy in the
AlcaZar. From being variety theater it
YVES changed into en- arena for opera
bouffe and comic opera. The whilom d.
rector is dead, but the widow still draws
princeIy income from that theater as q
result OF that change in policy. Aimee
played the principal parts in the operas
brought out under sdvice until bOmesick-
ness took her back TO Paris, end then in
1868 and 1869 she played in different Paris
thea(ers and in the provinces, parts which
Schneider had made famous. ~
The Partisan critics did not help her
They pointed out that q Paris AUDIENCE
was able to read between the lines, WheFe-
as she, with her foreign training, gave
the fullest and broadest Interpretation to
ali the meaning of scribe and musician.
They admitted t. at she was very clever,
but they main tanned that she WAS too
broad.
Then came the beginning of her career
in this country. Fisk was lavishing the
money that belonged to the stockholders
of the Erie Railway IN vain attempt 10
bolster the credit of the company and st
once create for himself playground
around Eighth avenue and Twenty third
street. In 1871 she came TO New York,
along with MOntalind, Persini, Stlly,Ajac
and we'll selected company of singers
and actors.
They played in "Les Brigands," ola
PeriChole" and four or five other operas
that have rot held their place so well,
and Aimee was f&cile princeps in the
company. Sac made reputation that
became world wide, while the others
gained only an ephefnersl fame.
Since then her career is familiar TO
every American who keeps posted in
matterss theatrical. In 1873 she engaged
under the management of Grau & Chi2-'
zOls, and fitted from placeEto place for
years. SIZE played AMI sang in the
Uzited States and Havana and South
America from year to year, but always
with failing glory. Her voice gave out
She played for time in Jessop's comedy
of "Ma'm'selle She went to- Europe
in 1879 and played in the VaFiete in
Paris in ola Boulengere des Ecus,"
but failed TO draw. She came
back to America under the mau-
agement Of Simmons & Brown, but
played to bad business. She went, as
she hsd done year by year in the dull
season, to France. She fell i'll. She
had recourse to the surgeons. She died
There was no family beyond an adopted
daughter, whom she found in America.
There was no fortune excepting q
house in Nogent, France, and odds and
ends that Will bring under the hammer
perhaps $4,000.
And this Is the end Of g woman who
has delighted countless thousands; q
woman who declined Fisk's overtures; q
woman VINO was pre-emiDent in her line,
but whom we will not remember long. -
The butterfly is broken in destiny's
wheel. DAVID A. CURTIS.